The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) will honor Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) with the 2018 Newsmaker of the Year Award during the NNPA’s 2018 Black Press Week. The Newsmaker event … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – White House adviser Valerie Jarrett has been named the National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation’s “Newsmaker of the Year.”
Jarrett was presented the award last week … [Read more...]

By Caryn Freeman
Special to the NNPA
This year’s Black Press Week held in Washington, DC culminated with the award ceremony honoring Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, who received an award … [Read more...]

By Karen Reedus Jasper
Special to the NNPA
from The Chicago Crusader
In celebration of the 184th anniversary of the founding of Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper on March 16, … [Read more...]

Black Press Week was recently held in Washington, D.C., the annual celebration of the nearly two centuries-old mission of Black-owned newspapers, was fueled this year by the fact that the 183-year-old … [Read more...]